[Lafora disease complicating myoclonus epilepsy. Report of 3 cases].
We studied four patients affected by progressive myoclonic epilepsy: three patients had the clinical features of Lafora's disease while the fourth was affected by a Lundborg's type of myoclonic epilepsy. In all above cases we found no specific electroencephalographic records of Lafora's disease; muscle histochemistry was useful for the diagnosis and the demonstration of PAS positive and NADH-TR positive Lafora's bodies. The Authors discuss the nosographic situation of Lafora's body disease among the progressive myoclonic epilepsies.
D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004831:Epilepsies, Myoclonic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009246:NADH Tetrazolium Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D010503:Periodic Acid-Schiff Reaction
D009246:NADH Tetrazolium Reductase
La malattia di lafora nell'ambito delle mioclono-epilessie: presentazione di tre casi.